16 HILARY TIDE. 



JAN. 16. St. Marcellus, pope and martyr, 

 A.D. 310. 

 St. Macarius the Elder of iEgypt, 390. 

 Five Friars Minors, martyrs. 



Concordia: Tern-plum a Camillo. — Julian Cal. 



Obs. St. Marcellus succeeded Pope Marcellinus in the pontifical 

 chair in 308, but died seventeen months afterwards. 



St. Marius the Elder was brought up an Egyptian herdsman, 

 but, preferring a holy life, studied divinity, and died at a great age, 

 having spent thirty years in the deserts of Scite. 



The Friars Minors are of the ]\Iendican Order of St. Francis of 

 Assescuri, called Franciscans or White Friars. The five recorded 

 today were killed by a Moorish king ; and their remains are pre- 

 served in the monastery of the Holy Cross at Coimbra. 



Red Archangel Lamium purpureum flowers. 



Though the Red Archangel or Dead Nettle, as it is also called, 

 is now sparingly in flower in our gardens, where it grows in borders, 

 among rubbish, and in all waste places, yet its general flowering is 

 about Ladytide, when its purplish red flowers are very abundant in 

 most waste situations. It is considered a weed in gardens, and 

 generally eradicated, but being an hybornal flower, and appearing 

 when there are few things in blow in the garden, it is often a pleasing 

 accompaniment to a winter garden. There are several species of 

 Archangel, of which this is the commonest. 



This day seems to be called Dies Electrica in Calendarium Natu- 

 rale, from the once great prevalence of Northern Lights or Aurorte 

 Boreales. In the year 1781, so remarkable for this phenomenon, 

 brilliant Northern Lights were seen from this time of year to the end 

 of the vernal season. On different occasions they varied in form 

 and colour ; an accurate register of them appears to have been kept 

 in the Weather Journal of the late Edward Forster, of Waltham- 

 stovv, in Essex, Esq. 



